Polar vortex outbreak creates 90 degree difference from one end of Texas to the other
Look at the cold plunging from the latest polar vortex incursion:
Notice the difference between Houston and Dallas, or New Orleans and Wichita now take a look at this map. WeatherBell’s Ryan Maue reports that the coldest state in Lower 48 was Iowa, with an average of -1.0°F
Look at the gradient across the front in Texas, note how sharp it is; a 90 degree difference from the southern tip of Texas to the Texas panhandle.
Former AMS president Marshal Shepard remarks:
Marshall Shepherd @DrShepherd2013 2h
Even better depiction of temperature difference with this front..90 deg difference.. Wow via Jared rackley pic.twitter.com/FDRZZvEtGb
See the WUWT Polar Vortex page for more
UPDATE: Greg Carbin of NOAA produced the 24 hour animation of surface temps:
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Today is my area of Virginia:65 F.
Tomorrow: Winter storm warning and 6″ of snow.
Tomorrow night: 10F.
Go home winter, you’re drunk….
Maybe we can turn some of those blue states into red states. Go vortex go!
Here in Dallas, I had my AC on this morning and now we have sleet falling.
Excuse me being ignorant are you C or F on the map?
[When many people are reading and writing comments, as well as the original author, you need to designate who the “you” who may (or may not) be C or F on the map. Mod]
@Sam Hall: correlation is not causation. 🙂
Cold is not the only thing that is heading further south this year. I don’t have a link but apparently the “northern lights” have been seen as far south as central England this year. May have been an effect of the recent solar flare.
The rough correlation to topography is striking. It looks like the high ground of the Rockes and Appalachians are containing a flood.
I’m from Texas that lived all over Texas and must admit that is impressive. I don’t recall it being that cold this late. I’m hearing that it could be as low as 14*f at the old house in Dallas area. Wow. I think it is supposed to get down to 22*f at the new house in Austin area and I don’t think I ever saw that in Dallas area while living there for 10 years in March.
Cool!!!
Northern lights in UK, they do see them in North Scotland and off sea islands. In the olde days sudden appearance of the Northern lights was considered a bad omen?
Is it worse than we thought? The polar bears in Canada, where I live, are knocking on our doors wanting to get in from the cold.
JimS, don’t let them in they are AGW alarmists? LOL
In like a lion, out like a lamb. aka March
SASKATCHEWAN
AWCN13 CWWG
Weather summary for Southern Saskatchewan issued by Environment
Canada at 12:54 P.M. CST Sunday 2 March 2014.
Bitterly cold Arctic air associated with a ridge of high pressure
centred over Southwest Saskatchewan resulted in a few
Record low temperatures early this morning.
Location (record low)
Rosetown -38.0, old record is -33.3 set in 1960.
Swift Current -35.9, old record is -34.4 set in 1972.
Assiniboia -35.3, old record is -32.2 set in 1916.
In addition, a couple of locations were close.
Leader -38.3, record is -38.9 set in 1972.
Maple Creek -31.9, record is -33.3 set in 1962.
A gradual warming trend will now begin, with temperatures expected
To be at or above seasonal normals by the weekend.
Please note that this summary may contain preliminary or unofficial
information and does not constitute a complete or final report.
End
These records probably only go back a very short time. Toronto’s started 1937.
Yes – the polar vortex. So y’all getting our message we’re not real happy with the XL lack of progress now?
Well, here in the Chicago suburbs the snowfall is such that it has become almost comical.
You run out of places to throw it…. at least it been light powdery snow due to the cold temperatures.
There might still be snow piles left in April ??
In Manhattan, KS, the high here today was about 10* F. ‘Normal is 51*F for a high and 25* F for a low.
It will be interesting to see the new low high Temperatures records. (I think I got that right….)
And we are supposed to plant potatoes in 2 weeks.
@bushbunny: 100 Celcius is when water boils, so it’s F. Celcius maps never go much above 40C.
monday supposed to be high of around 11 F and low of -12 F
yay
In The Woodlands, Texas, north of Houston, we went from 72 degrees F at 3 PM to 36 degrees F at 7 PM, an amazing 36 degrees in 4 hours!
Looks like a typical summers day from 20,000 years ago
Didn’t realize there were so many of us Canadian prairie folk here on wuwt! We farm 40 miles from one of those Saskatchewan record lows. Does anyone know if Environment Canada “adjusts” the older records?
This is no longer entertaining and mildly amusing. Now we are on the edge of this with single digit temps and a foot of snow! Stay tuned though…it will soon be announced that it was the warmest February on record.
“Notice the difference between Houston and Dallas”
Well at the moment it is cold, raining and miserable in Houston, so it will probably be listed as the hottest and driest February in a century.
We were bicycling late this afternoon when the first blast of air hit our part of Houston.
It went from pleasant cycling weather to chilly and uncomfortable in about 5 minutes.